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We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Fear is the mind-killer.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Reason for being
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The giver is the recipient.
Talk is cheap.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Shoot.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Hare & tortoise.
Learning.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Work vs. Luck
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Creativity before productivity.
80:20
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are what you think you are.
You are here.
NFTs, explained.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Realize.
Switching costs.
No one is coming to save you.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Experience is up only.
Vision
View reading as an investment.
+2 vs. x2
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction, focus.
Alan Watts
Movement, action.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
No, it took me my whole life.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth.
Everyone, Someone.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
